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Role of Dopamine in Generalized Photosensitive Epilepsy: Electroencephalographic and Biochemical Aspects

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Generalized Epilepsy

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Epileptic photosensitivity is an abnormal electroencephalographic (EEG) and clinical response to flickering environmental light or pattern stimulation. The EEG hallmark of epileptic photosensitivity is the photoconvulsive response, consisting of bursts of generalized and bilaterally synchronous spike-and-wave (SW) or polyspike-and-wave activity induced by photic stimulation (Meisen, 1969; Hughes, 1960; Jeavons and Harding, 1975).

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  2. Department of Physiology, University of Patras Medical School, 261 10, Patras, Greece

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  3. Laboratoire de Physiologie Nerveuse, CNRS, F-91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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Quesney, L.F., Reader, T.A. (1990). Role of Dopamine in Generalized Photosensitive Epilepsy: Electroencephalographic and Biochemical Aspects. In: Avoli, M., Gloor, P., Kostopoulos, G., Naquet, R. (eds) Generalized Epilepsy. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6767-3_21

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